Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-31
General News.

4 Chinaman has gone on the stage in New
York.
Artificial ivory is made by injecting white
wood with chloride of lime.
Nine cables are used to tell the daily story
of Europe to America and America to Europe.
The wood of the California sycamore has
lately come into extreme favor in cabinet
work of all sorts.
4 man died in New Hampshire the other
day, who had never been away from home
for forty-three years.
The forest area of the United States is less
than 40, 900 900 acres or about onetifth of the
area of the whole country.
\ nugget of gold weighing 81 pounds, and
believed to be pure metal, was recently found
at Balarat Australia. Its value is Sl3, 900.
\ ncgress, 2s years old, of Somerset coun-
", y. j., is grandmother She was a
mother at IL and her daughter married at the
same age.
One of the glaciers of the kinchinjunga in
in India, a peak whose summit is 2,S00 feet
above sea Level, has vertical height of H.
900 feet
The public museum at Nantes. France
has just acquired the casket in which was
placed the heart of Anne of Brittany Queen
of France and Navarro. 1t is of solid gold.
BY means of an air gun, Professor c. l..
MeeS has found that to drive straws into pine
boards and hickory bark, as is often done by
tornadocs, velocity of 40 to ~ miles an
hour is necessary.
The Italians fatten their turkeys with wal
nuts Thirty days before the fowl is to be
killed one walnut is stuffed down his throat.
Each day he is given an additional walnut,
and on the Doth day he has % walnuts. He
is then exceedingly fat.
The English army consists nominaly of
2ll.47i officers and men, but it is said that
only one army corps can actually be put in
the field, and that only by frantic makeshifts.
OF the $40 officers and men stationed in
England it is alleged that $1,000 are boys
under 10 and that Ia, 900 more are under 20.
Hartford man has invented an apparatus
for timing horses. \ clock with three hands
minute second. and quarter-second. is start
ed by the official timer. When the winning
horse touches the wire the clock is stopped
by electricity. At the same instant the cur
rent opens a camera, which photographs the
horse and the clock face.
Newport is becoming more and more a
place for the very wealthy. People with in
comes of $50 900 to SO 900 year can no
longer make a show there and participate in
fashionable gayety An income of $4,000
even does not enable one to meet the eXacting
demands of the American Vanity Fair.
The continuous decrease of crime in Eng
land is very remarkable. SO recently as
| 500 the prisons contained no less than ! -
coo convicts. In July last there were only
74tl. What is also very interesting, the
Education act marked the turning point in the
history of crime. Since the passage of that
act the decrease has been steady.
One form of japanese industry seems
doomed to extinction. namely. the making of
bamboo umbrella frames Paragon wire is
now imported as a substitute. The Old
japanese bamboo frame and oil-paper UNI
brella is fast going out of use, even in the
country districts, and there is brisk and
growing manufacture of umbrellas and para
soils of the European fashion, not only for
home consumption in Japan, but also for e1-
port to China. the Straits Settlements, and
other places, The Japanese are shrewd
enough to discover the things in which they
cannot compete with Europe. They now
import wire nails instead of nal-rod iron.